I noticed that this was the first year I was ever realistically made aware of Canada Day, amusing really as most of the people I still converse with from my WoW days are Canadian. Anyways: MOVE ASIDE CANADA DAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 'MERICA!**this was the best result from searching for "'merica" in google images, lol

It's got several modes for taking photos: HDR, Eraser (it takes a series of photos and erases moving objects), Panorama (pan the thing around 360 degrees while it continuously takes photos and stitches them all up), several portrait/sport options... yeah, pretty much that.

I'm keen to test out its panorama mode from the top of Table Mountain, but the cable car is rather pricey, and Platteklip Gorge is a horrible, steep slog to the top.

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, usually this means that a camera will take several different pictures within a very small time frame at different exposure levels. One under exposed, one at normal exposure, and one over exposed. Software in the camera will then combine the images into one.

This usually helps reveal detail in areas of a picture that would normally be dark, and keep bright portions of an image from being washed out. The last picture there is probably the best example, in a non-HDR picture, the sunset would be much brighter and washed out, and you probably wouldn't be able to pick out any detail on the grass or in the sand.

When done well, HDR pics can look amazing, but they can also pretty easily oversaturate colors, create a weird "halo" around objects, and other odd effects such as clouds being darker than the surrounding sky.

In the last year or two, HDR processing software has gotten MUCH better though, in the past, many HDR pics would wind up looking something like this:

(Sorry for the poor grammar, working off of 2 hours of sleep here.)

Courage not of this earth in your eyesFaith from far beyond lies deep inside

KysenMurrin wrote:I've tried panorama on my phone a couple of times; found that if I'm doing it by hand the straight-line horizon winds up all wobbly. Guess it requires a tripod if you want a good result.

Depends on the software. I know on the iPhone it crops the top and bottom to create a level image, within a certain tolerance level of course.

We live in a society where people born on third base constantly try to steal second, yet we expect people born with two strikes against them to hit a homerun on the first pitch.

even though that is most likely a warrior, and an orc, DEW WANT NAO!!!! though i do have an orc prot warrior...>.>

Brekkie:Tanks are like shitty DPS. And healers are like REALLY distracted DPSAmirya:Why yes, your penis is longer than his because you hit 30k dps in the first 10 seconds. But guess what? That raid boss has a dick bigger than your ego. Flex:I don't make mistakes. I execute carefully planned strategic group wipes.Levie:(in /g) It's weird, I have a collar and I dont know where I got it from, Worgen are kinky!Levie:Drunk Lev goes and does what he pleases just to annoy sober Lev.Sagara:You see, you need to *spread* the bun before you insert the hot dog.

Brekkie:Tanks are like shitty DPS. And healers are like REALLY distracted DPSAmirya:Why yes, your penis is longer than his because you hit 30k dps in the first 10 seconds. But guess what? That raid boss has a dick bigger than your ego. Flex:I don't make mistakes. I execute carefully planned strategic group wipes.Levie:(in /g) It's weird, I have a collar and I dont know where I got it from, Worgen are kinky!Levie:Drunk Lev goes and does what he pleases just to annoy sober Lev.Sagara:You see, you need to *spread* the bun before you insert the hot dog.